Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
A KANSAS COLUMN.
Extracts from the Savings Of the Brainy
Men of the Age.
Praise that is Justly Due, and that
Only Half tells the Story OF
our Glorious State.

gladly reproduce:
Is unequaled for its school facilities
and church privileges. Doubtless
God could have made a better state
than Kansas, but doubtless God never
did.-ReU. John PierrepoTt.
Kansas has soil rich in all the chem
ical elements necessary for vigorous
growth of vegetation.-Dr. W. II.
Saunders.
don't know what mystery has
brought about the rapid development
of Kansas, except the mystery of edu-
cation and industry.-GeneraL W. I.
Sherman.
There is no monument under the
Heavens on which 1 would rather have
my name inscribed than on the goodly
state of Kansas.-Hen1y Ward Beecher.
In Kansas nobody talks courage, for
everyone is expected to exhibit it. A
few years will make the state of Kan
sas the garden of America.-1 Thomas
W. Higginson.
L am fairly seething with rheuma-
tism over my visit to Kansas. All Bra
Zil is as nothing compared to what can
be seen of natural beauty and scien-
tific realization in that wonderful land.
Prof. AgaSSiz.
The early events i'll her history inn
planted love of liberty and social pro-
gress among the people of Kansas
which must contribute to makeEher one
of the most prosperous, populous and
wealthy states in the union.-John
Sherman.
1 like Kansas; 1 like the Kansas peo-
pie. They implanted in onr soil the
principle of universal liberty. If all
the population of our country was like
the population of Kansas, our noble in
stitutions would have nothing to fear.
You were born in the struggle Tor free
dom, when civil, war over-rode our
land. If all our people were like the
people of noble Kansas, we would al
ways be a free nation.-G General u. S.
Grant.
like Kansas-better than 1 expect
ed to. The soil is richer and deeper.
the timber is more diffused, the conu-
try more rolling than supposed there.
consider Kansas well watered-no
praire state better. Springs, creeks
and rivers are quite universal.-Hor-
ace Greeley.
All my work in securing early col
onies for Kansas has been paid for a
thousand times by the sight of happy
and prosperous people. Kansas is a
state unrivaled in soil and climate, but
her highest honor is her population.
Their intelligence, enterprise and char
acter make them worthy of the grand
middle state, and of her history.-Eh
1n6yer.
Under the plastic sod of freedom,
how astonishing has been the growth
of Kansas i'll intelligence, industry, en-
terprise, population and material pros
perity; and at the same time what
strides she is making i'll developing
her ample resources, and how irresist-
able is the magnetism by which she is
drawing herself, from all quarters, a
mighty immigration that can scarcely
fail to place her, ere long i'll the front
rank of states This is her fitting rec
ompense for having gone through
baptism of blood and an ordeal of fire
with such fiFInoss and devotion in the
sacred cause of humrn freedom Wnl.
Lloyd GaSrisOn.
The time will come, and II viii be
within the memory OF some who do me
the honor TO listen to me now, when
| Kansas viii have 5000 900 of people,
and you viii export more largely when
you have, 3, 900, 900 to feed from your
soil than you do to-day, for you have
only begun to scratch your broad do
main as yet. 1 know of you and about
you, and have to say that from the
beginning of the settlement of all the
states of the United States there is
none since the days of colonial adven-
ture that has about i she romance of
history Of tias aefence of free labor and
sIsse s0tl.-Janles @. Blaine.
Kansas exercises the same facciDatfon
over me that she does Q:E4ean who have
ever yielded 70 her spell. There are
sorpe women whom to have once loved
renders it impossible ever to love again.
AS ''the grey and the melancholy main"
to the sailor, the desert to the BedOuin,
the Alps to the mountaineer, so is